Tag: Goose Island Brewery

BONNERS FERRY, ID—From certain vantage points in the Kootenai River Valley of northern Idaho, Elk Mountain Farm looks like a rippling sea of green that extends into the distance, surrounded by three mountain ranges—the Selkirks, the Cabinets and the Purcells. “The first time I saw it, it took my breath away,” says Goose Island brewmaster... View Article

From Larry Bell’s college days in Kalamazoo, MI, when he homebrewed by mixing clean water with good yeast inside 15-gallon soup kettles, his beer business has only grown. A South Chicago native, Bell loved Kalamazoo so much that he decided to build his life there. In the mid-1980s he opened what would become his namesake... View Article

Walking into the brewery at the Glacier Brewhouse in Anchorage, AK, you might think you were in a wine cellar instead. There in one alcove is head brewer Kevin Burton’s “wall of wood”—an impressive row of about 50 oak barrels, all filled with beer. “Everything goes in the barrel,” Burton says, especially his stout, porter,... View Article